Davíd Livingston Carrasco was an American government official and college basketball coach.
[1] Carrasco then worked as a teacher before serving in the United States Navy during World War II.
After the war, he earned a master's degree at the University of Maryland, College Park, and then coached boys' basketball at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he won three state championships as head coach from 1951 to 1955.
Carrasco was the first Mexican American to serve as the head coach of a men's basketball team at a major university in the United States.
[4] The El Paso Job Corps opened under Carrasco's leadership in September 1970, and it developed into one of the most successful programs in the country.